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Human capital formation, income inequality and growth

Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2001

The paper studies the determinants of income distribution and growth in an overlapping generations economy withheterogenous households. Our framework has the following main features:heterogeneity of consumers with respect to wealth and parental human capital;intergenerational transfers,...

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Illegal entrepreneurship experience

Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004

Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...

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Moral barriers to birth control access : how the pill changed Dutch women's lives - when religion did not get in the way

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée S. - 2021

We investigate how religious beliefs affected the take up of the birth control pill and impacted women's outcomes using the 1970 liberalization of oral contraceptives in the Netherlands. We first document a massive and immediate drop in fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom...

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Wage dispersion in Russia

Grogan, Louise Anne - 1997

This paper examines the extent to which human capital theory can explain observed wage differentialsin the Russian Federation. Wage and income dispersion have increased markedly in Russia in the sixyears since the transition began. Some studies conclude that this is an indicator that Russian...

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Earnings responses to disability benefit cuts

Garcia Mandico, Silvia; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Gielen, Anne C. - 2018

Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by … estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI entitlement under more stringent criteria … increased by 6.7 points and earnings rose by 18 percent. Recipients were able to increase earnings by e0.64 for each e1 of DI …

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Heterogeneous agents, human capital formation and international income inequality

Munandar, Haris - 2007

The paper examines the effect of heterogeneity in individual human capital formation on cross-country income inequality. It considers a two-country model of overlapping generation heterogeneous economies with the following features: (1) individuals are heterogeneous with respect to inborn...

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Working from home in the Netherlands : looking inside the blackbox of work and occupations

Mihaylov, Emil - 2022

The paper provides new evidence on the ability to work from home (WFH) for hundreds of Dutch occupations and examines how WFH is related to various occupation-specific characteristics. This is done by linking several publicly available datasets from Statistics Netherlands, which contain...

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Female admission cap in higher education : the case of Iran

Hering, Laura; Baiardi, Anna; Namini, Julian Emami - 2021 - This version: July 2021

We study the effect of an Iranian educational policy implemented in 2012 that restricted access to higher education for women in 30% of Iran’s public universities, mostly in sciences and engineering. To analyze the effect of the policy, we use a triple difference strategy across gender,...

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The effect of skill level on the timing of childbearing and number of children

Alders, Peter - 1998

This paper examines the effect of differences in ability on the timing and number ofchildren. Higher skilled women have less disutility of labor and have relatively lessutility of raising children. Motherhood has a negative effect on the accumulation ofhuman capital by learning-by-doing and...

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Childcare subsidies and labor supply : evidence from a large Dutch reform

Bettendorf, Leon; Jongen, E. L. W.; Muller, Paul - 2012

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